Peter A. Alekseev

Peter A. Alekseev (14 January 1849-16 August 1891) was a Russian revolutionary.

Biography
Peter A. Alekseev was born in Novinskaya, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire on 14 January 1849, and he worked at a textile factory since his childhood. In 1874, he joined a Marxist circle and distributed socialist literature to fellow factory workers; he was imprisoned in 1875. In 1877, he wrote "Millions of working people will raise a muscular arm against the yoke of despotism, and they will smash to pieces the soldiers' bayonets." He was sentenced to ten years in prison, and he was killed during a robbery in Yakutsk in 1891 at the age of 42.